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Originally Posted by Hitch
I don't factually know. My current understanding, which is hearsay, is Indy-pubs only, at this moment in time. I don't see the need, if you think about it, for a trade-pubbed book (Big whatever-the-number-is-now). After all, as I believe I've pointed out previously, trade pubs simply won't do it. They'll have printed volumes out there with (generally) the same issues. They're not going to reprint the bloody book for 3 typos.
(Anyone here who hasn't read my rants about instant gratification and snotty readers won't know this, but I think that it's absurd to insist that a KDP publisher INSTANTLY run around and fix 3 bloody typos. Random House wouldn't do that; don't know why an eBook publisher should have to, either. Not to mention--what worked for an upload in, say, 2010, won't work now. It'll be interesting to see how that's all sorted.)
Amazon's announcement specified KDP-published eBooks. Trade pubs don't use the KDP, so...presumably, not trade-pubs. Will it eventually become that? Possibly, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Instant gratification entirely aside...
I have really wanted to be able to report and get a tradpub book pulled in the past. And not for 3 bloody typos either!
I regard this as massively unfair if trad- and indie-pub are not competing on the same level -- for three typos I don't think an indie book should be pulled either, and for the kind of errors that I consider significantly impactful to the reading experience, tradpub should not be magically exempt.
And don't think tradpub is exempt from having stupid errors.
